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Reuse and other circular solutions are becoming increasingly common in retail today to create more sustainable consumption. To promote this transition, more knowledge is needed on how companies can create better conditions and customer experiences around the sale of reused products.
Hello there, Hanna Enefalk, Associate Professor of History and the new representative for Karlstad University in Humtank. Tell us more!
"Humtank is a think tank for research and education in the humanities, with representatives from fourteen Swedish universities and colleges. It has existed for over ten years and is funded by nearly all Swedish universities engaged in humanities research. Its purpose is to highlight the humanities and their perspectives.
2017-11-08
Catarina Karlsson is an archaeologist and historian who is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for regional Studies (CRS) until the autumn of 2021.
2023-10-04
The Academic Celebration is one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. On 20 October it is time again and this year we celebrate passion for research – we present and inauguarate our new Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson during this year's celebration. With great pomp and ceremony we will promote our new doctors, award honorary doctorates and inaugurate our new professors.
2023-03-20
Rihab Balti is in her third year as a computer science PhD student at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Vallenciennes, France, and the National School of Computer Science, Tunisia. She is visiting the subject of Educational work at Karlstad University, after finding us through the EUNICE university alliance.
Rihab Balti is researching distance studies and wants to gain a greater understanding of what behaviors and needs students have when it comes to stu
2022-09-13
Mia Larson, Professor of Business Administration, has been awarded “Outstanding paper 2022” by Emerald Publishing for the article “The inevitability of essentializing culture in destination branding: the cases of fika and hygge”.
2024-11-04
On Wednesday, October 30, the computer science department hosted a thesis project fair to help establish connections between students who have applied for thesis projects for the spring and potential sponsors.
11 companies and organizations participated along with around 40 students.
"It was great to see so many people come and want to participate.
2018-04-11
Isn’t it obvious that women spend more money than men in the presence of a physically fit male employee? Isn’t it obvious that viewing an opposite-sex individual with an attractive face makes people more motivated to choose healthy rather than unhealthy foods? And, isn’t it obvious that restricting product touch in a store decreases rather than increases consumer spending? After all, these are all beliefs held by consumers and even marketing professors.
Do you want to participate in an honorable assignment? Every autumn, Karlstad University conducts Academic Celebration. At the ceremony, doctors are promoted and new professors are installed in solemn forms.
We are looking for students who want to participate as a marshal. At the Academic Feast, the Marshal is invited to attend the following dinner and will be seated among the guests if possible in connection with each subject.
ISE stands for "Improving value creation through service education" and is a project where the Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University, in collaboration with companies and organisations develop and offer tailored, flexible courses at the advanced level aimed at professionals.
ISE is funded by the Knowledge Foundation between 2020-2025.
We are happy to welcome Henrik Rehn Johansson, new PhD student in psychology at CTF. His research will focus on motivational factors for everyday travel.
Hello Henrik, can you tell us about your background?- I have studied at Umeå University where I earned a Master of Science in Psychology with a specialization in sports.
2024-05-07
Psychology student Olivia Rosén has been awarded Lilla Psykologpriset. The prize of 10,000 SEK is annually awarded by the Swedish Psychological Association to a psychology student who, during their studies, has worked to improve people’s quality of life.
Hello Olivia and congratulations! How does it feel?
“It feels incredibly good. I feel honoured and proud.
The government today followed the recommendation of the university board and appointed Professor Johan Sterte as Karlstad University’s vice-chancellor. Johan Sterte succeeds Åsa Bergenheim to the post on 1 September 2017.
Johan Sterte (57) has extensive experience as vice-chancellor. He was the vice-chancellor of Växjö University from 2009 to 2009, and since 2009 he has been vice-chancellor of Luleå Luleå University of Technology.
2019-04-18
Service innovation is a concept that, for the last decade, has received increased attention both among academics as well as practitioners. But it is not easy to understand what the concept means, and why it is important.
2013-09-04
Margareta Friman, Professor and Director at Samot, The Service and Market Oriented Transport Research Group at Karlstad University, has accepted an assignment in the External Advisory Board of Metpex.
Metpex is a research project funded in the context of the 7th Framework Programme of the EU, aiming to develop and evaluate a standardised tool to measure passenger experience across whole journeys.
2016-04-28
The Hotspot job fair, the Snits networking group for students, mentoring and a summer course. This proved a successful combination for IT student Raymond Berglind, who is currently completing the final year of the computer engineering programme at Karlstad University and who has now developed an app for Evry, an industry partner in Snits.
“It all started when I went to Hotspot and got a good feeling about Evry.
The alumnus of the month is a teacher, who decided to build his career on two legs: music and history. He thinks that the principle of mastering one instrument is a universal tool applicable to just about anything.
Name: Johan Blückert
Age: 32
Family: Co-habitant and a father-to-be
Education: Teacher of music and history
Profession: Teacher at Bollnäs Folkhögskola.
Johan grew up in the small mill town Vretstorp, some Sw. miles south of Örebro.
Julio Angulo was awarded his doctorate at Karlstad University in 2015 and is now doing research on user experience at Google. On 13 January he visited Karlstad University to give a lecture on his journey from Karlstad to Google to inspire students.
”During my time at Karlstad University I met many clever and motivated students.
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CTF is one of the participants in the project IndBygg, which is run by Paper Province. The project aims to promote a green transition within the construction industry and, through collaboration, bring industrial wood construction to new heights.
To achieve the goals for sustainable development and create a fossil-free society, we need to develop the forest-based bioeconomy and use more wood as a construction material.
The Tor network is used by hundreds of thousands of people who want anonymous access to the internet to avoid censorship. Computer Science at Karlstad University is again the recipient of funding for its research on the anonymity network from the Internet Fund.
”The right to be anonymous on the net is an important issue for people all over the world, not least for human rights watchers, whistle blowers and journalists.
2016-06-22
Computer Science at Karlstad University has successfully recruited a new professor to its excellence research on data security and privacy. Melanie Volkamer works on human factors in security and privacy.
- Often it looks like security contradicts usability. That is, the more secure it is, the less usable it is.
2018-05-08
ITQ – the network for girls studying IT at universities and practitioners in business, celebrated 10 years with cake, guest lectures, and not least mingle and networking. The guest was Siduri Poli, the digital inspirer of 2017, who told of her interest for technology as a tool for change.
Present were also current IT students, high school students from Fria Läroverken as well as professionals from CGI, Ibiz solutions, Municipality of Karlstad, Netgain, Sogeti and ÅF.
